Now look, i know there's a few people who seem to be revelling in the fact that Jimmy Bullard is injured. Always something to chuckle at, isn't it?

That's the thing that pi$$es me off as well.

Walking off the pitch to come back on again seems like a pointless waste of time and effort, and as you say the player's team is disadvantaged.

See, Saint Billy, someone came along to show you the errors of your point. Me, I just thought I'd have a laugh at your expense, because to be brutally honest, if you hadn't even thought of that, you deserve everything you get.

It's just when a player goes down to stop the game on purpose, then jumps up straight away, it really winds me up. Obviously if the player has been fouled and is genuinely hurt, then he will either have to go off for treatment anyway, or he will be staying down to make it seem worse to try and get people booked or sent off. If he is genuinely hurt then chances are he will need the treatment in that 5 minute spell.

I do understand that if two players of the same team bang heads, then they may need treatment, maybe the officials could judge the situation and if they feel that the player is not actually hurt, then they could have the option to make them go off for the 5 minutes, rather than making a rule that says they must go off. Its the referee's opinion.

Thing is, some teams do that anyway. I Think the introduction of the sin bin would mean that teams would try not to foul as much, as they will be without a player for 10 minutes.

It will take some getting used to in the game but I think it could work TBH

I did think of it. It's something that really winds me up and would like to see a way of it being stopped, hence me starting a bit of discussion on it.

If that's what you get your laughs from, then to be brutally honest, you need a life.

Then you could end up with officials trying to ascertain whether a player is injured/hurt or not...in this litigious times that will never ever happen.